PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT
The setting up of a Ministry of Public Englightenment was advocated by Mr S. C. Leslie, at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Citizenship at Bristol. “The Ministry’s first function,” he said, “would be to use the modern tech-, nique of communication to help to articulate and bring alive the idea of democracy in the public mind, to make familiar the nature and the meaning of democratic procedure; to ask people to vote; to lead them to read their newspapers carefully, and to listen to the wireless; to explain to them their own institutions, national and local, statutory and voluntary. Modern urban society is broken down into a dust of individual atoms because, while it is somebody’s business to build blocks of flats or streets of houses, it is nobody’s business to work out techniques by which the inhabitants can act as free communities to think about their own concerns and the concerns of their State. Such a Ministry would also be the natural organ for presenting the image of British democracy to the world.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 8
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180PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1938, Page 8
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